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Fans have been trying to decide between the Patriots, Tom Brady and Bill Belichick winning their sixth Super Bowl, or the Eagles finally winning their first in team history.

The general sense when you ask most Giants fans who they would prefer is the Patriots winning.

Why?

The Eagles winning their first Super Bowl would cap off what’s been the most disastrous season in franchise history.

Never mind the fact that Ben McAdoo took an 11-5 playoff team from a year ago and turned it into a team that now holds the second pick in the 2018 NFL Draft.

Never mind the fact that Eli Manning’s ironman streak for consecutive starts also ended in early December; a decision that went so horribly wrong it cost both McAdoo and Jerry Reese their jobs.

And never mind the fact that the Giants went 3-13 and had the most losses in franchise history — granted, they have that second overall pick as their reward for such a terrible season.

What would make this year even worse for the Giants fan base is watching the Eagles win a Super Bowl and having to endure what came next from Philly fans.

Eagles fans aren’t exactly known for being well-behaved. We saw how they acted the day of the NFC Championship Game where fans were fighting each other and police officers riding horses had to step in to break up scuffles in the parking lot. Or how they heaved bottles and cups at every Vikings fan who dared to wear a jersey into Lincoln Financial Field. Or the gigantic sign that said “[Expletive] Millie,” a shot directed at the 99-year-old woman who’s a lifelong Vikings fan that received recent viral attention.

Now, imagine if you will, you’re a Giants fan and then the Eagles win it all. Torture.

The city, and more importantly, the police force of Philadelphia may not be ready for the impending “celebration” that would follow.

Most Giants fans would likely tell you that the Eagles’ fan base is one of the most obnoxious in all of sports and would be impossible to deal with if Philadelphia finally got off the schneid won a Lombardi Trophy.

And the one thing that would make it worse? Losing the bragging rights the Giants have, which consists of being the only team to knock off the Patriots with Tom Brady and Bill Belichick in the Super Bowl.

The St. Louis Rams couldn’t do it. The Carolina Panthers couldn’t do it. The Eagles couldn’t do it the first time. The Seattle Seahawks couldn’t do it. And the Atlanta Falcons found a way to complete the biggest choke job in Super Bowl history and couldn’t do it.

Yet, the Giants did. Twice. And one of those two wins came against an 18-0 team that was two minutes away from completing a perfect season.

The ability to have that claim over every other team and the reminder of how special both Giant’s Super Bowl teams were would be diminished with an Eagles victory in Super Bowl LII.

The Giants and their fans would have to swallow the fact that they would be lumped into the same conversation with the Eagles going forward every time.

Instead of having a part of history for themselves to hold onto, the Eagles could swoop in and steal that away. If that doesn’t make Giants fans’ gut wrench and turn in knots, nothing else will.

So when the Patriots and Eagles clash in Minneapolis in two weeks time, most should be rooting for the Patriots to repeat as champions, win their third title in four years and claim their sixth Super Bowl championship.

Most Giants fans can and should be able to deal with the Patriots winning another title. It doesn’t have that negative of an impact on them like some would think. Brady and Belichick are all-time greats and are supposed to win a lot. And they do.

What makes it even better if that if not for the Giants, Eli Manning and Tom Coughlin, Brady and Belichick would be 7-0 going for 8-0 and instead, are 5-2 and going for 6-2.

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Needless to say, it’s why the debate is silly and why Giants fans should be pulling hard for the Patriots to win it all. If not, good luck to the fans dealing with the aftermath that comes out of Philadelphia.

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